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Multitasking or Attention Switching?

Upside Learning

As a general search on the web will reveal, there is quite a debate about multitasking and task switching. He needs to either multitask – to monitor the word streams and identify the words that occur in the set, or he must constantly switch focus from window to window. It’s based on simple word identification.

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Multitasking – Don’t Do It

Upside Learning

When multitasking, productivity decreases up to 40% and stress rises. Harvard Business Review’s Peter Bregman spent a week consciously not multitasking and writes about it. Hit the jump - How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking. Related posts: Multitasking or Attention Switching? His results? First, it was delightful.

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Your Brain on Change

Learningtogo

Contrary to popular belief, the brain does not multitask. Joe Despenza (uploaded on August 19, 2009) shows the neural network in the act of transformation: forming new connections and dissolving, or “pruning,” old, no longer useful ones. Google Tech Talks, September 23, 2009. Switch cost. Instead, it switches between tasks.

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

And as part of this, I’ve been taking advantage of: 2009 Predictions How Did I Do? 2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year. 2009 has continued that effort. And many of my 2009 Top Posts and Topics are related to exactly this.

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Virtual learning after the pandemic

CLO Magazine

As some of you may recall, during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, much of learning was halted because that’s what organizations do in a recession. We don’t think so, and for several reasons: We are much better at virtual learning now than we were in 2008 and 2009. . Multitasking. This path is not new.

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Instructional Design, Learning, Multitasking, & Camtasia for Mac

Big Dog, Little Dog

Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off - Wired. What happens to people who multitasking all the time? In every test, students who spent less time simultaneously reading e-mail, surfing the web, talking on the phone and watching TV performed best.hey fare significantly worse than their low-multitasking peers.

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Camtasia - LMS - LCMS - Best of eLearning Learning August 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

August 2009. –( eLearning Events Calendar )–> Tuesday, September 08, 2009. –( eLearning Events Calendar )–> Tuesday, September 08, 2009. –( eLearning Events Calendar )–> Thursday, September 10, 2009. Top 99 Workplace eLearning Blogs - eLearning Technology , August 24, 2009.